Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Editor MacLeish in OFF were other able men: Columnist (now Captain) Robert Kintner; Historian & Essayist Henry F. Pringle of Harper's and Collier's; former Washington Correspondent Ulric J. Bell, of the Louisville Courier-Journal; New York Times Book Reviewer Charles Poore; Columbia Broadcasting System's Vice President William B. Lewis; TIME'S Allen Grover, Chicago Daily Newsman Edgar Ansel Mowrer...
...confusion. Fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt got fed up. He set the Office of Facts & Figures at the top, as No. 1 information agency of the Government; the same time he muzzled his Cabinet by ordering that all speeches and statements must be submitted first to OFF Chief Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize poet,* former FORTUNE editor, and Librarian of Congress...
...Editors of Truth. The U.S. knew little about Archibald MacLeish, Illinois-born 49-year-old journalist, who studied at Harvard to be a lawyer, was so highly regarded that men thought he might some day be the hope of the Boston bar. But at Yale MacLeish had begun to write poetry. He left the law, went to Paris, saw the town and the world much as other American expatriates. Returning, he became a writer-editor of FORTUNE in 1930. As a general journalist he was superb. When the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor, and Americans turned to their reference works...
...other journalistic highlights were the MacLeish-edited FORTUNE series (December 1937-June 1939) on South America and the MacLeish-edited FORTUNE study (June 1935), summing up the British Empire at its last great happy moment, the Jubilee of King George V, King-Emperor...
...Latin America. As unity grew out of the Pan-American conference at Rio, said Director MacLeish, the Axis beam to South America became a frantic torrent. Since most Latin Americans are Catholics, the Italian radio portrayed "Protestant Roosevelt" in an alliance with "Atheist Stalin" against "Catholic Fascism." Another Axis broadcast asserted that the Vatican had urged Latin America not to break with the Axis. This the Vatican promptly denied...